MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Routledge – 2015 – 396 Pages.
Edited by Curtis J. Bonk, Mimi M. Lee, Thomas C. Reeves, Thomas H. Reynolds.
Learn more about this book MOOCs and Open Education
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a
edited collection
which
explores
subjects
related to open
educational resources
(OERs) and
massive open online courses (MOOC).
The latest
advances in
e-learning are providing the means for
humans
in nations all around the world
to take part in courses online.
These massively open online courses are
customarily free
but do not
consistently
lead to formal accreditation.
Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist.
There are several
issues that
blended learning institutions
are having to deal with
in 2015 because learning technology is
advancing so fast.
MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities.
How can participants
ensure that
the quality of instruction provided by these
massively open online courses is
acceptable?
How can students
assure that
educators are properly credentialed
and qualified to teach online?
What different strategies are being used by
institutions like
Spain to conduct these massive open online courses?
What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal?
How can institutions
deal with the problems of
low
motivation and high
student attrition?
As distance learning technology becomes more
prolific there is a
growing
need
to comprehend how
these massively open online courses are being conducted.
Researchers
and numerous other
participants
need
to understand
these
open education
endeavours.
Instructors want
to better understand how
these massive open online courses
can be made better.
To handle this
increasing
desire for
information
the new book
MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
provides a critical analysis of
MOOCs and other open education subjects.
This intriguing new book
also examines the
controversies associated with
massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs).
To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.
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